Removing ‘powered by ads2’ advertisements

Advertisements ‘powered by ads2’ popping up in your screen are the evidence of a serious infection currently enabled and running in your computer. To be more precise, this infection is classified as adware according to many security blogs.

Ads by ads2

Users who want to remove these advertisements ‘powered by ads2’ easily might have difficulties doing so. The problem is that you cannot find exactly the same name of the program to be mentioned in the list of legally installed applications of your computer. Nevertheless, detection of the source of these ‘powered by ads2’ advertisements is a feasible task for powerful malware and adware removal programs, such as Plumbytes Anti-Malware.

‘Powered by ads2’ adware removal menu:

Advertisements ‘powered by ads2’ will attempt to redirect your attention to different third-party pages engaged in further adware and malware distribution. These can be some fake system optimization or useless system cleanup utilities designed specifically to get money from you, without really rendering any decent services.

Advertisement powered by ads2

Adware spreading these ‘powered by ads2’ adverts is most likely bundled with certain free applications. When you install such programs please be extremely careful not to allow any hidden installations to occur in your system. For this purpose please always select the option of a custom or advanced installation where you may uncheck these third-party applications from becoming the part of your system.

Sometimes people fail to be duly attentive and allow various useless software to be installed into their computers. This is often done after users click on “Next” or “I agree” buttons, without actually understanding what exactly they agree with. Removal of ‘powered by ads2’ can be performed effectively using the full registered version of Plumbytes Anti-Malware. So, download and install this program and scan your system with it. Finally, remove the infections and reset your browsers with its help. Feel free to contact us for further assistance if you need it.


Software to get rid of advertisements ‘powered by ads2’ automatically.

'Powered by ads2' adware removal tool

Important milestones to delete ads ‘powered by ads2’ automatically are as follows:

  1. Downloading and installing the program.
  2. Scanning of your PC with it.
  3. Removal of all infections detected by it (with full registered version).
  4. Resetting your browser with Plumbytes Anti-Malware.
  5. Restarting your computer.

Detailed instructions to remove ‘Powered by ads2’ Ads automatically.

  1. Download Plumbytes Anti-Malware through the download button above.
  2. Install the program and scan your computer with it.
  3. At the end of scan click “Apply” to remove all infections associated with ‘Powered by ads2’ Ads:
  4. Anti-Malware Scan Completed - Apply actions

  5. Important! It is also necessary that you reset your browsers with Plumbytes Anti-Malware after this particular adware removal. Shut down all your available browsers now.
  6. In Plumbytes Anti-Malware click on “Tools” tab and select “Reset browser settings“:
  7. Built-in tool of Anti-Malware to reset browser settings

  8. Select which particular browsers you want to be reset and choose the reset options.
  9. Options to reset browsers with Anti-Malware

  10. Click on “Reset” button.
  11. You will receive the confirmation windows about browser settings reset successfully.
  12. Reboot your PC now.

Video guide explaining how to reset browsers altogether automatically with Plumbytes Anti-Malware:


Detailed removal instructions to uninstall ‘Powered by ads2’ adware manually

Step 1. Uninstalling this adware from the Control Panel of your computer.

  1. Make sure that all your browsers infected with ‘Powered by ads2’ adverts are shut down (closed).
  2. Click on “Start” and go to the “Control Panel“:
  3. Start - Control Panel

  4. To access the Control Panel in Windows 8 operating system move the computer mouse towards the left bottom hot corner of Windows 8 screen and right-click on it. In Windows 8.1, simply right-click on the “Start” button. Then click on “Control Panel“:
  5. How to access the Control Panel in Windows 8 and 8.1

  6. In Windows XP click on “Add or remove programs“:
  7. Add or remove programs in Windows XP

  8. In Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1 click on “Uninstall a program“:
  9. Uninstall a program in Windows Vista, 7 and 8

  10. Uninstall suspicious adware. To do it, in Windows XP click “Remove” button related to it. In Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1 right-click on this adware with the PC mouse and click on “Uninstall / Change“.

Step 2. Removing adware from the list of add-ons and extensions of your browser.

In addition to removal of adware from the Control Panel of your PC as explained above, you also need to remove this adware from the add-ons or extensions of your browser. Please follow this guide for managing browser add-ons and extensions for more detailed information. Remove any items related to this adware and other unwanted applications installed on your PC.

How to prevent your PC from being reinfected:

Plumbytes Anti-Malware offers a superb service to prevent malicious programs from being launched in your PC ahead of time. By default, this option is disabled once you install Anti-Malware. To enable the Real-Time Protection mode click on the “Protect” button and hit “Start” as explained below:

Enable protection by Anti-Malware

Once this option is enabled, your computer will be protected against all possible malware attacking your PC and attempting to execute (install) itself. You may click on the “Confirm” button to continue blocking this infected file from being executed, or you may ignore this warning and launch this file.

Malicious item blocked by Anti-Malware